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Had a lazy day today staying around the Hotel Indigo. We walked down Zhongshan Lu and had lunch at Aijsen Ramen, one of our favourite Japanese restaurant chains. We then wandered back to the hotel and had afternoon tea sitting up in the restaurant area overlooking the harbour and Gulangyu Island, unfortunately not warm or nice enough to sit outside. ...

We took a 30 minute taxi ride out to the Jimei Educational Village, a suburb of Xiamen with a lovely university campus and more colonial buildings.

Came back to the harbour area of Xiamen and wandered down Zhonghsan Lu Walking Street and then took a detour through little market areas. Met a lovely Chinese girl and her brother at the Church, where a Chinese Christian wedding ceremony was just about to begin. ...

... one has her paw on a baby lion and the male his paw on a ball - want a pair to guard our house! The temple buildings had high wooden thresholds to clamber over- this country is not for the disabled as all the temples and gardens have lots of steps. The higher the threshold the more important the building. In the gardens were some lovely ancient stone statues of lions, cats and horses. I like the turtles holding up columns. Turtles are ...

We left the Indigo Hotel and caught a taxi to the cable car. This was really funny as no-one in Xiamen seems to know they have a cable car here but we had seen it from the road. We eventually found it. It was a beautiful day and the views were stunning. We then went for a lovely wak around the Botanical Gardens. ...